Olavi Virta

Olavi Virta

30 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Jan. 21, 1972

Portrait of a national icon: iskelmä or popular schlager legend Olavi Virta (1915–1972), as an old, lost and lonely man. When the film was screened for the first time, people all over Finland went ballistic – they couldn't take the sad sight of their tango's greatest voice, the incarnation of postwar wealth and glory in ruins.

Olavi Virta

30 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Jan. 21, 1972

Olavi Virta
Portrait of a national icon: iskelmä or popular schlager legend Olavi Virta (1915–1972), as an old, lost and lonely man. When the film was screened for the first time, people all over Finland went ballistic – they couldn't take the sad sight of their tango's greatest voice, the incarnation of postwar wealth and glory in ruins.
Producers Yle
Original title Olavi Virta
Directors Peter von Bagh
Writers Peter von Bagh

Cast

Olavi Virta

as Himself

Peter von Bagh

as Himself / Interviewer (voice)